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Opera 1987
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This works more as a horror film than the likes of "Suspiria" and its sequels/sister projects. It's still highly stylized, but manages to reach depths which those don't, in terms of plot and psychological significance. It is certainly shocking, more so in its subject matter than its murder scences, but nonetheless produces suspense to keep one at the edge of one's seat, or at least never fully reclined.
The film is eye-candy, as Argento's always are. Mira's death sequence is…
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The Company of Wolves 1984
Is there anything better than horrid practical effects and out-of-sync dialogue? There is something very Brechtian about it.
Having read The Bloody Chamber, I am unsure that one comes out of the movie with anything more than what one can get from the book. Still, the story does a great job of synthesizing what Carter said in three different short stories, and of putting it into one singular script. It is heavily symbolic, and some of it may be lost…
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Adaptation. 2002
Amazing on all fronts. Amazing script, amazing Meryl Streep, amazing thoughts on adaptation, amazing adaptation of a work difficult to adapt, amazing meta commentary
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